If you remain faithful to my teaching, you are truly my disciples; and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free (John 8:31-32)
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me (John 14:6)
Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world (John 17:17-18)
I was born and came into the world for this reason: to testify to the truth. Whoever accepts the truth listens to my voice (John 18:37)
STUDY QUESTIONS
1. Is John's Gospel close to the historical Jesus? How can we compare with the Synoptics?
2. Who are the Johannine Christians? Why was this Gospel written?
3. How is Jesus portrayed in the Gospel? What is his primary work to do?
For example, Jesus never claims that he is God. The opposite is obvious. What does he say that his work is? Look what he says: “If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. But if I do them, and you don’t believe me, believe the works so that you can know and recognize that the Father is in me and I am in the Father” (John 10:37–38, Common English Bible).
4. What is Jesus' relationship to the Father?
He seems like a new Moses! In what sense?
5. What relation is there between Jesus and the Logos in the Prologue and in the entire Gospel?
The prologue does not say that Jesus is the Logos. Then, what does he have to do with the Logos? What is the Logos? Can we say the Logos is God's?
6. How can we understand incarnation theology in 1:14: “The Logos became flesh”?
John 1:14 must be understood in a metaphoric sense. What does flesh represent?
7. How can we understand the “I am” sayings of Jesus?
There are seven "I am" sayings of Jesus with the predicate.
8. Does John 14:6 exclude other religions?
9. In what sense is Jesus the way, the truth, and the life?
10. How is spiritual birth different from physical birth?
*Refer to my book, Truth, Testimony, and Transformation.